[CR]Ideale saddle repair possibilities?

Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2008 19:05:18 +0000
From: "Simon PJ" <simonpj@mac.com>
To: Simon PJ <simonpj@mac.com>, Classic Rendezvous <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
In-Reply-To: <C3C28220.47215%simonpj@mac.com>
Subject: [CR]Ideale saddle repair possibilities?

I have an Ideale saddle which has lost all of its leather:

http://www.wooljersey.com/gallery/simonpj/Follis_1955_Forestier/ADSCF1236. jpg.html

http://www.wooljersey.com/gallery/simonpj/Follis_1955_Forestier/ADSCF1237. jpg.html

http://www.wooljersey.com/gallery/simonpj/Follis_1955_Forestier/ADSCF1240. jpg.html

I'd be grateful for any advice about the possibility of repairing it.

I do have some other Ideale saddles - which don't have the sought-after Duralumin frame - and wondered whether it would be possible to do a leather transplant. Or would anybody be able to make a replacement leather?

Thanks,

Wyndham Pulman-Jones
Girton, Cambs., UK.